{"id":17884,"date":"2018-12-07T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=17884"},"modified":"2018-12-07T12:17:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T12:17:32","slug":"alice-willitts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/alice-willitts\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Willitts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Strategy i: surrender<\/b><\/p>\n<div>my heart is oily blue<\/div>\n<div>swallows,\u00a0frantic to escape<\/div>\n<div>birds whose\u00a0flight<\/div>\n<div>is a grace\u00a0fall to earth<\/div>\n<div>one by one\u00a0exhausted<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>swift cockroaches carpet sorrow<\/div>\n<div>muffle the impulse to resist<\/div>\n<div>miniature mouthful<\/div>\n<div>by miniature mouthful<\/div>\n<div>away<\/div>\n<div>and my heart<\/div>\n<div>stripped clean<\/div>\n<div>by the many tongues of grief<\/div>\n<div>continues more than less<\/div>\n<div>to beat<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Alice Willitts<\/strong> is a writer and garden designer. She collaborates under the name Cathenka-Willitts (<a href=\"http:\/\/cathenkawillitts.wixsite.com\/cwpoetics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/cathenkawillitts.wixsite.com\/cwpoetics&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1543604160512000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG59qkOdi5F5MeZ_jo5reVtdz7T4A\">cathenkawillitts.wixsite.com\/<wbr \/>cwpoetics<\/a>). She completed an MA in Creative Writing Poetry at the University of East Anglia in 2018.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Strategy i: surrender my heart is oily blue swallows,\u00a0frantic to escape birds whose\u00a0flight is a grace\u00a0fall to earth one by one\u00a0exhausted &nbsp; swift cockroaches carpet sorrow muffle the impulse to resist miniature mouthful by miniature mouthful away and my heart stripped clean by the many tongues of grief continues more than less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17958,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17884\/revisions\/17958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}